Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Bags O' Fun VS Anguished Souls in Torment

Y'know, there are a lot of cartoon characters who may have been in godawful shows, yet they still make swell lookin' bags.This is a sure sign of good character design if they hold up under your own gas.I'd love to have this semi-inflated handsome Ricochet Rabbit sack. Check out his rude and inflamed olfactory unit.Aren't you dying to blow up Mighty Mouse to see what his bag looks like? He seems to have an inflatable lump on his noggin to go with his wrong colors.

They just don't create characters who make good bags anymore. No more cartoon icons.Can ya imagine a bag of this imp freak? That would give the kiddies some nightmares.Ever notice how modern cartoon characters look like every pose and expression involves a lot of pain and strain? It's like there are a hundred invisible demons yanking this guy's eyebrows with all their might, yet they still are barely moving. Is it hard to animate a smile today? Even the simplest expression has become a petrified detestable mask of agony.Or how'd ya like a nice 'tude bag? Painful strained 'tude I might add. The modern theory is that animated characters have to really struggle to achieve even a fraction of a spark of life. If it isn't hard to lift an arm, then it isn't quality.

so it really sucked that much, i couldn´t tell because my only choice was hideous translation made by so called movie-stars. every time there was a song i would say to my self "that´s it i´m getting out", but then id realize "i´ve already paid and they wont give me my money back" so that´s the reason i know how this movie ends.

Apparently audiences don't notice any stiffness or numbness, and the critics just love it. They do notice it in Zemeckis films, so maybe the threshold of noticeable stiffness and numbness lies between DreamWorks and Zemeckis.

Actually, it's the last of the Disnry Princess era, there was really only ever one character, their attitude just got smug as time went on. Ever notice how characters who started out very charismatic and sly (or in one's case, "Daffy" and insane) only became bitter and smug with age?

I just seen the Tangled post and i can't believe you have all right about the 'Tudeness. The worst thing happened is films critics appreciate that crapfest than notice the errors and have real judgments. Only Michael Barrier and Jerry Beck mades sincere reviews about that movie.

Well, Martin, the audience liked it, so I think the critics do well to reflect the audience's taste. Barrier and Beck are animation experts, and I think they do well to represent that point of view. Both sides are valid.

How does a bag-o-fun inflate itself properly with all of the short-sighted half-lifes puffing stalely into it's air hole? They puff blandly at it, and then get mad when it doesn't spring to life. Then they give up.

Fun bags are few and far between. They lurk in the deepest, darkest corners of the Goodwill and on the edges of Ebay solar systems...

All these poor, shrink-wrapped souls can do is thank their lucky stars daily for the gas giants. And for the moon.

When I was watching Tangled I had a hard time adjusting to the silliness of the acting. Animation posing paired with all that detail and texture.. doesn't seem to work for me. In general, I don't like acting in animation that looks like the characters are performing in a play but CGI seems to be way, way, way less forgiving. It feels like they're trying too hard to make the old way work but its not the same medium. To me, THAT made it feel strained. Its like, dude, you went through all the trouble modeling them and giving them all these realistic textures.. it seems like they'd want to make the acting more "real" and less caricatured...

My very talented friend Aaron Long wrote a really funny post about a similar issue recently - Why don't eyes and eyebrows move together anymore? And how is it that in CG features, where everything is broken into pre-programmed mechanical relationships and thus cheats are not possible, that eyebrows are now moving independent of the eyes beneath them?! It's lunacy!!

The girl in Tangled has bigger breasts, and more cleavage than the one from The Little Mermaid. See link below to confirm. There is a computer algorithm to adjust 'bounce'. Expect pirate 'Dead of Alive' version to be circulating in the usual dark corners of the internet soon.

I finally see this picture yesterday. What a disappointment! And i also notice how they seems to paid more for the special effects and CGI techniques than for the writings and characters itself. How many dollards paid for that misery? 930 millions, anyone?